The 13th-century Persian poet has become a household name in contemporary America, but few know the name of the scholar who popularized his poems in the West. Since the 1970s, Coleman Barks has been ...

Are you tired of getting your view of the Muslim faith filtered through the twisted lens of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban? Of course you are. So let's turn to Jalal al-Din Rumi, that extraordinary ...

During the last decades of his life, the Persian poet Rumi was surrounded by news of terrorism, just as we are eight centuries later. Those were the days of Mongol invasions that swept past the ...

Some quotes seem to stay alive long after the people who wrote them are gone. They travel across countries, languages and ...

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Children’s book author Omid Arabian believes ancient ideas about interconnectedness can help today’s kids feel safe and empowered amid challenging times. Featuring illustrations by the ...

Rumi was born to native Persian-speaking parents on the Eastern shores of the then Persian Empire on September 30, 1207, in the city of Balkh which is now part of Afghanistan, and finally settled in ...

The Spiritual Verses: Masnavi-ye Ma'navi, Book 1, by Jalaloddin Rumi, translated by Alan Williams, read by Anton Lesser (5hrs abridged, Naxos, £16.99) This is the 800th anniversary of the birth of the ...

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet." This quote comes from one of Rumi's major works ...

One of the most popular poets among Western readers today is actually a long dead poet of the East. Rumi, the 13th century poet of the Persian empire, still inspires with his works evoking ecstasy and ...